Leafshine: Lust for Flower

Would Saying "It's Just A Game" Help?

A kid freaking out because his Mum cancelled his WoW account:

I hope I would act better if my other half ever pulled the plug on me. :)

The New "Supermarket" Arena

This is, in fact, deeply awesome:

Pity that I live in the UK and can't buy the product. :)

A Naxx WTF?

A guildie, and good buddy, is a bit of a server hopper. When our server, which is a quiet, RP backwater, can't provide the action he craves, he hops server for a while, and then comes back.

His latest blog post contains something I find utterly inexplicable: a server where you need the Epic achievement before you can join Naxx 10-man pick up groups. WTF? You need to prove that the run is useless to you before you can join it?

Can anyone from a non-backwater server explain?

The Great Warcraft Ennui Escape Plan

Like 67.56983214%¹ of the WoW blogosphere, I've been going through a period of WoW ennui right now - and I know exactly why. I've moved past the questing stage with Leafy and am now occupied solely with a combination of dailies, instancing, raiding and clearing out my remaining group quests. And, as happened in Burning Crusade, that leads to a touch of, well, boredom. I'm a narratively-driven gamer, and once you reach the end of the questing road, your narrative incentive goes.

So, I find myself just a few Champion's Wotsits away from a nice Epic weapon, but unable to summon up the enthusiasm to log in and do a few rounds of jousting to bag the reward.

And so I don't play.

And so I don't blog.

But then, the social pressure of the need for Leafy Haelz gets me raiding in lovely ol'Naxxramas last night, and we have a satisfying night, with Noth falling before us on our first ever guild attempt on him. Hurrah, us. Hurrah also my uber, Decursive-assisted, curse removing skillz. And Hurrah for guildies who are bringing their new alts into the instance. And as I look at the alts, electrons leap the vast gap between neurons in my brain, new connections are formed and an idea takes shape.

I need to get back to my alts. Nice as the idea of "completing" Northrend on Leafy appeals, it's never going to happen unless I rekindle my enthusiasm. And the best way to do that will be to get my alts, sadly neglected since the launch of WotLK, back in action.

I have A Plan. Will report back.

¹The legions of researchers I have working on this blog are very precise in their investigations.

New to The Blogroll: Weak and Zen

I've added a couple of new blogs to the ol'blogroll this morning.

Rez the Weak posted one of the most interesting responses to my post on blogging basics. And I just love the interviews Xeonio is doing with fellow raiders. Fascinating reading.

Also new is a Resto Druid (hurrah!) called Zaralin. And she got on there on the strength of this post. The image in there made me laugh out loud.

Both come highly recommended.

The Newest Raven on the Blog

A guildie has just started dipping his toes into WoW blogging. Please go and say "hello" and give him some encouragement. Thanks!

Once Upon A Leafy

Once upon a time, a very long time ago in fact, I was tagged to do a meme. And I thought "ooh, that looks fun. I must dig out a really old screenie and do that". And promptly forgot all about it.

Once upon a much more recent time, Admiral Bob Llianion got around to fulfilling his tag. And I thought "oooh, blimey, I should have done that". And this time I remembered to dig out my old screenie! And there is young Leafshine, in her 16th season, exploring Westfall, and being awestruck both by the sunset, and by how clean her UI was, back in those 1.x days of WoW. 

So, what were my n00bish moments?

Boss Kill Movies Redux

OK. So, as nobody cares about boss kills and they should only be on guild blogs ( :-) ) I've posted my first Wrath boss kill movie over on my guild's blog.

It's not the hardest boss in the world...

I am amazed at how much the quality has gone up since I last did movies like this. Part of that is the HD quality now available on YouTube, part of it a better computer, but the graphics upgrades that have come with Wrath are part of it, too. I'm looking forward to doing more.